UNITED NATIONS -- Bearing a message from the Russian who invented the world's most common assault rifle, activists will press governments at a UN conference on small arms to ensure such weapons aren't used to trample human rights.By: Nick Wadhams|Date: Jun 26, 2006

UNITED NATIONS -- Over Chinese and Russian objections, Japan introduced a draft Security Council resolution yesterday that would impose sanctions on North Korea for its rocket test-launches and also order a halt to its development of ballistic missiles.By: Nick Wadhams|Date: Jul 8, 2006

Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in the war on terror, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Monday.By: Nick Wadhams|Date: Oct 23, 2006

...want it, but we would be ready to start discussing how we arrange the movement towards these goals," Lavrov said. ------ Associated Press writers Scheherezade Faramarzi and Nick Wadhams at the United Nations contributed to this report.Date: Sep 21, 2006

MOSCOW -- Facing criticism that Russia has not acted quickly enough to quash an Islamic rebellion in the south, President Boris N. Yeltsin promised yesterday that the militants would be defeated steadily but "without haste."

Yeltsin's acting prime minister, Vladimir Putin, was chastised Wednesday by members of Russia's upper house of Parliament, who said Russia should act more resolutely to stamp out the rebels who invaded several villages last week in the Caucasus region of Dagestan.

By: Nick Wadhams, Associated Press|Date: Aug 13, 1999

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